TV AfterParty

ravenous rules

have you ever wanted to see noted character actor robert carlyle in something good instead of being the only good part of something crap? This is the movie for you. Have you ever wanted to see a movie about the underlying cannibalistic properties of westward expansion and colonialism? This is the movie for you.

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guy pearces sweater looks so good on him

let’s watch ravenous at the meetup

David arquette is a weenie! noted pedo Jeffery Jones is a freak!

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would be a great way to followup previous meetup watch of Walker

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I watched all 6 episodes of Spicy City, Ralph Bakshi’s HBO animated adult neo-noir stories. adult in the sense that the characters have jobs they hate, and drink and smoke and curse, as well as tits

Michelle Phillips from The Mamas and the Papas does the voice for the sultry host. that’s probably the most notable thing about it. best episode was Tears of a Clone with the ambiguous ending hinting at the relationship between belief and authenticity, and plays like a cyberpunk one-shot

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and plowing through Gravity Falls after bathtime before bedtime. I though Kristen Schaal was a terrible casting choice in the first episode and now Mabel is clearly the best character. it is all thanks to writing

love that Grunkle Stan is a bad guy but not the bad guy

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that

looks like it’d be something that lends itself to a plot-twist in the last episode, considering what’s goig on in RL cinema :tarothink:

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Having watched a bunch of other Apple shows it’s a miracle the first season turned out as good as it did… Hope they can sustain that

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here 5 balaban

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balaban stan clan rise up

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X-Files well has dried up… looking down the barrel of rewatching Fringe, even though I know I dislike fully half of that series.

What about Millennium?

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you must enter lance’s world…but not season 3…that one sucks…

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Give me the hard dick on this one, Minty: Is it actually good or do we all just want it to be good super duper bad?

I wanted that Lone Gunman spinoff to be good too and was led to ruin by those rowdy conspiracy boys.

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IVE POSTED MANY TIMES ABOUT HOW MILLENNIUM IS GOOD

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Partially because it just came up itt, but lots of parts of severance feel weirdly reminiscent of x files, at least tonally/aesthetically. The parts outside the office at least. I think at the time I described it as a series length twilight zone episode shot in the style of the X Files. Lots of moody wintery landscapes and hushed phone conversations w mysterious strangers

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Yeah read iguferon on this. I am no Millennium expert

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Severance is so fuggn good, I share everyone’s fears that it even got a second season. There’s a lot of great stuff left to do, it just depends on if they’re willing to move into new territory or if this’ll be a rehash of the first season in perpetuity.

On the other side of the quality spectrum, I continue to subject myself to FROM, a series that is extremely clearly trying to be Lost again, to the level of having Harold Perrineau as the lead and just stacking mysteries with no attempt to cohere any of it. I am having a great time.

There are several particularly good actors here tasked with the challenge of saying “We have to calm down and figure out what’s going on here” every 15 minutes for going on two full seasons now. If some semblance of order is ever achieved, a venomous monster bird or goblinoid creature will appear to terrorize them, kill off a character, then it’s back to everyone freaking out until Harold Perrineau comes out and tells everyone “We have to calm down and figure out what’s going on here.”

It gives me the vibe of a modern M. Night Shyamalan movie in a way I sort of love. Entering into it knowing this will never fucking make sense and it’s just a bunch of rats in a maze has made me just focus on the performances, which are broadly-speaking great. Terrible, fun show.

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Been putting jeopardy on to sleep because i get too into watching price is right or supermarket sweep and want to play. But i’ve just been watching Alex trebek episodes on utube. I really like when they just show the whole broadcast, commercials included, because it’s fun to look at like the cultural artifacts of a time when i was too young and dum to pay attention to anything. And they’re usually not broadcasts from the area i grew up in so i get to see how Vancouver was really worried about “youth violence” on November 6, 1995. Also these commercials are somehow way less offensive than modern ones. On this one i’m watching right now this actress named Lynn Redgrave is drunk af, it’s awesome

omg Alex trebek just called her stupid, lol

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